"This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government."

Source : Eleventh of November 1887: Haymarket Memorial Speech by Voltairine de Cleyre, delivered in Chicago, contentdm.library.uvic.ca. 1901.

Voltairine de Cleyre

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“After the kids are asleep you â€¦ well, you know. Whatever it is. You slip away for a night.”
“The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.”
“I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears”
“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1200, Macmillan
“It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?”
“Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“No, there are no long stages of preparation through which you must pass; all things are now ready; there is nothing to hinder you from becoming a Christian this very hour. And, if any of you have been trying to make yourself better until you are weary and discouraged in the work, all you have to do is to put it into stronger hands.”

Source : Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

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